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SATURDAY, JULY 16. I960
Between The Lines
Bv Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP
Whose Fault Is It?
The Congelese people have taken
over from the Belgians, their erst¬
while rulers. Their independence
did not come the easy way, for as
their new Premier, Lumumba, re¬
counted in caustie language,” the
Congolese” have known ironies, in¬
sults and the blows to which we
have had to submit, morning, noon
and night because we are Negroes.
“On that great occasion of the
inauguration of an independent re¬
public, Lumumba came pretty close
to spoiling the “coming out party”
by his barbed references to Bel¬
gium’s 80-year history of terrible
atrocities in the Congo.
The world remembers with Lu¬
mumba the late King Leopold, who
not only exploited the Congo, but
bled it in the meantime. So on
the August occasion of independent
Congo’s “coming out party” a dis-
cordant note was sounded, much t„
the chagrin and embarrassment of
the Belgians present.
While President Kasavubu was
more restrained in his remarks for
the great occasion, broadminded
men e\$prywhere will sympathize
with the stinging rebuke Lumumba
let go on said occasion.
The liberal world will pardon
this erstwhile prisoner’s outburst
of pent up resentment of
treatment for nearly three-fjCnerS-l
tions. Some of the South’s news-
papers spoke rather disparingly of
the Congo’s future and intimated
that the Congo was “not ready”
for independence.
Suppose for the sake of argu¬
ment—and for the sake of argu¬
ment only—that the Congolese peo¬
ple are not ready for independence,
whose fault is it? The Belgians
have been in charge for nearly a
hundred years, why they had not
readied Congo for independence?
How long would it have taken Bel¬
gium to get Congo ready’ ft>V-inde¬
pendence? ir.: ? ,: • " ’ ■ 1 v-n 1
This “not , ready gag is a hoary-
Colonial pleaded argument imperialism for, perpetuating!
1 and its
: .comitant slavery.
T Doubtless when No^s appeared
befoi'e Pharaoh with his plea for
the liberation of the Israelites, the
Egyptian monarch used ' the “not
ready” argument and doubtless
hinted thut in another four hun¬
dred years the Israelites blight
Ivince certain evidences ,of r,eadi r .
Hess for the journey to the Promis¬
ed Land.
It must have boon the same when
Artaxerxes was getting ready to
let Nehemiah lead the Jews back
Frontiers of
America, Inc.
^Continued from rage one)
July 27t.h, registrations will begin
at the convention’s permanent
headquarters in Clark College from
3 to 5 p.m.
The convention will be called to
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© CafVftGOr i960 SHBJ.OH- OOWWNy
Jerusalem after their seventy
of captivity in Babylon.
There must have been Babyloni¬
ans who raised the hue and cry,
lire nob ready,” for the Re¬
turn. Then the American Colon¬
ists began to press for independ¬
England under King George
III got tough and doubleless list¬
to those of his advisers who
cajitgntJeii'.t^iit. ready” for the independence, Colonists were and
“not
forced these young Colonists to
fight for the independence we are
celebrating today. ,
The British suffered Ireland to
split into an Ulster and an Irish
Free Styte, before they would
grant that Ireland was ready for
independence.
If Ireland was not ready for
freedom after hundreds of years of
Kn *? lish rule whose fau,t was it?
Abolitionists bad stored
the world on the matter of Amer¬
ican slavery, the Southern plant¬
ers sent up the cry that the Ne¬
groes were not ready for freedom;
and tjy.s .meant, that after three
{luridped' yej^r,s,fjf American slavery
these slave-masters had utterly
failed th' prepare their slaves for
1
Nftr. iwere they trying! Slave-
masters Are slow in readying slaves
for freedofm cWhdse fault is it
that, slaves then are not ready for
freedom. ,
Here in the South there is cur¬
rently going on a struggle between
Negroes and their oppressors, and
one of t^e strongest is arguments
these latter are using the “not
ready” argument.
It has been nearly a hundred
years since the Emancipation Pro¬
clamation was signed and if the
Negro is not ready it is not the
Negro’s fault.
' — ... - - 4 -f • •
have , .him ready. . The TVl fact fn „ t remains,
tJi|it‘Ne^r be "readied'if 6 es'haye 1 shoWn given that chance. they
can a
• The finh beginnings Negroes
havgjuadf’) ti 'every field of useful
endeuvor are kreyqc^ble proofs
that-all.tlw Negro needs and wg^ts
is a chance to mak» ready for full
citizenship^.,,/ , .,
When therefor^ the American
Negrophobes raise the hue and cry
that Negroes are not ready for in¬
tegration, and .desegregation, .tb/episeives they
haye only to ask. whose
fault is it that Negroes are not
ready?
order by Jesse O. Thomas, host
chapter president, at 10 a.m.,
Thursday, July 28th, after which
the general business of the conven¬
tion will follow in the order listed
in the group’s official brochure.
The organization will have as its
guests'* number of prominent na¬
tional and local speakers. The hon¬
orable Don L. Crawford, national
president of Frontiers of America,
Inc., IviiV'cIeliver' his annual mes-
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Haw TH AMI
ffjlQjSaeui PASHA
The prince whose mother
WAS A SLAVE / THE FRENCH CALLED
*-’**»’**• 0 ntftl y**- ****<*•' ^
HIM THE BLACK PANTHER OF MOROCCO !
AT LEAST 12.000 SOLDIERS DEFEND
HISKINGDQM OF MaRAKESH !a PRO
FOUND STUDENT OF LANGUAGE, M1LI-
TARY SCIENCE AND WORLD AFFAIRS,
!•'**» « ■■
HE LIVES IN SUMPTUOUS LUXURY AND
• KEY CENT- 1
HAS STOCK-BROKERS IN
• 'tff, * .«*-*•»- MM '
ERSTHROUGHOUT THE WORLDl
!
CflAT/A'fArrAi.
NAACP Sends Truckload
Food to Somerville
Victims of Boycott
SOMERVILLE, Tenn., (ANP)
—Seventy five Negro families,
victims of an economic reprisal
j instituted because of attempts here last by
, Negroes to vote, feasted
j I week on a truck load National of food
shipped in by the
| Association for the Advancement
of Colored People.
Jesse H. Turner, an NAACP
spokesman in Memphis, said his
organization sent the food “and
some clothing” in response to a
plea from the Fayette county
Negroes.
“They haven’t been able to get
jobs or credit or anything else
since they registered to vote,”
Turner said.
About 60 per cent of the coun¬
ty’s population of 24,000 is Negro,
but according to the U. S. Civil
Rights commission, no Negroes
have voted there since Reconstruc¬
tion days. Only 370 have register¬
ed so far. Turner said, however,
many more want to vote but don’t
try for fear of the reprisals.
The food was sent by truck from
Memphis, 30 miles away, and was
distributed at the grocery store of
John McFerrin, a Negro who is
one of the leaders in the drive to
get Negroes registered.
Turner said wholesalers and
gasoline companies have refused to
sell McFerrin any merchandise
since the drive started.
Turner said the food was dis¬
tributed only to those families who
were suffering because some
member had registered to vote. He
sage during the sessions. A Presi¬
dent’ Banquet in Thayer Hall,
Clark College, will be one of the
featured events of the meetings. A
most important phase of the con¬
vention will be a Panel Discussion,
the theme of which will be: “Pro¬
gram of a Service Club.” Discuss¬
ants for the theme will be repre¬
sentatives of Rotary, C i v i t a n
Lions, Optimist, Kiwanis and
Frontiers organizations.
Members of the national board
are expected to be in Atlanta on
July 27th, for a special meeting
at 5 p.m.; a special dinner will
follow at 7 p.m.
M. R. Austell, executive secre¬
tary of the host chapter, urges
that Frontiers delegates and visit¬
ing Yokefellows bring their wives
and other members of their fami¬
lies. Adequate accommodations and
excellent entertainment have been
arranged for to make of their visit
a memorable occasion. The social
calendar will include, among other .
things, sightseeing tours, garden ,
and bridge parties, shopping tour-
and house parties. The ladies of j
the convention may attend the i
luncheon and the Founders’ Day
Dinner, Memorial Services and all
meetings which are open to the
general public.
Mrs. Florine D. Furlow, chair¬
man of the Ladies Committee, will ,
meet with all visiting wives and
give them a detailed program of
activities already planned for.
Relative to the feminine side of
the convention, delegates and visit-
; ng members are urged to indicate,
when registering whether their |
wives will be accompanying them. !
And so it is “On to Atlanta,
Leader of the South” and the
mecca of culture of Negro Amer¬
ica.
July 6 , 1921 — F.zzard Charles,
former heavyweight champion of
the world, born in Atlanta, Ga.
TTTE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
said the was
position to help other
families in this low Income
Turner sa’d another shipment
food would be sent here and
a 10 -day clothing drive had
organized in Memphis
churches.
White farmers and
i n Fayette county say the
ments are no more necessary
than they were a year ago.
“There is no need evident
this county,” said Mayor I.
Yancey, who denied there had
any economic reprisals ,
against the. Negroes.
However, Turner said he
talked with several families
have been getting crop'
regularly from banks in tKb
for the past 20 years , 1 aVffl
said they Were suddenly
no more credit was available
they had registered.
“And I talked with one old’
he must be in his 70’s
lives by doing odd jobs,” he raid.
“He went and registered and
hasn’t been able to get a single
i ob since then ‘ He ’ s I,vin «
one of his children and hi 1 wife
living with another one here in
SPECIAL* Make it an evening
to remember. Sit and talk
over tall glasses filled with
the KING of Beers... Buclweiscr®
naturally!
Where there’s Life... there’s Bud®
ANHEUSER-BUSCH. INC. ♦ ST. LOUIS • NEWARK • LOS ANGF.LES • MIAMI • TAMPA
ISAAC I). HIRSCH CO.
DAVID H. HIRSCH, PRES.
/ WHOLESALE UISTHIBL'TORS
Memphis. I asked them if they
were having any marriage diffi¬
culties. lie said, ‘No, that’s the
only way we can exist.”
“Unprepared” For
| Freedom, Congo
(Continuer* from Page Orel
'' nU 1 r all< join neighboring
Northern , Rhodesia, r nonethe¬
less, T.ahome agreed to go along
with the fledgling republic dur¬
ing Its formative days as a free
nation.
All the reported uprising and
violence seem to be following
a pre-independence prediction
for the Congo. Those who
have preached against the Con¬ !
go becoming independent, have i
pointed out that the country
was not prepared for freedom,’
that tibe Belgians had ever]
intended that its former co-|
lonials posseaslion should ever
gain Independence. |
The" post-independence out r
breaks thus may according ta|
plan, with the eventual and;
that Belgium would be called]
upon to take over anew as ruler
of the rich Congo territory.
July I), 1809-—Abyssinian Bapt-
i t church organized in New York
J City with 1 !) members.
SAKDFLY
By Mrs. Ellie Bivens
The Community was
by the death of one of its
on citizens, Mrs. Lucinda
chison Jones, whose funeral
vices were held Thursday
ing at ML Tabor Baptist church.
She was the mother of Mrs.
blrda Gould, Abraham,
and Archie Jones, Jr., and
ol Mrs, Martha Holloway.
L Kelley delivered the
Burial was In Laurel Grove
etery Friday with
Funeral Directors in charge.
Misses Sailie Jenkins and
brl Clark of New York City
visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Kemp and family. Miss
»l„, kins b Ik tie ofwt>.
Kemo. of the family. Mra ! C, ” k |S * i o
Mrs. F. K. I.uten and
Thelma Stiles who are
ing summer school in
burg, K. C-, spent the
weekend with thpir families.
Miss Shelia Smith of
York city is spending her
cation with her grand
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Griffin
Norwood Ave.
Mrs. I,m y Williams of
York city is visiting her
Mr., and Mrs. James (Jim) Wi!
■Mams, of Bona Bella.
Mrs. Frances Jackson
and snn of Fernnndina,
lrft for homo last
after spending three weeks
their mother and grandmother
respectively, Mrs. Della Jack-
son, at Grimble Point.
Mrs. Helen B Gresham
the supper guest of her
and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Abra¬
ham Bivens, Friday, before leav¬
ing for New York. city.
July 17, 1861 Cencriil Sherman
famous march to the sea
broke the hack of the Con*
,j ur i ner civil War.
July 18, 1868 Negroes legally
Amorican citizens in
owd* 11 ' sout-hern stab*.
,w n ‘
AME Ehurch, one of oldest in Chi-
founded.
1 h c r Olt.. lionica
\< vemV w*
“The remarkable thing
about: Hcftpol reunions is that
your old classmates have
gotten so fat and bald that
they hardly recognize you.”
PETITION FOR INCOR¬
PORATION
STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF CHATHAM
TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
SAID COUNTY:
The petition of WIIJ.IE
ROSS, GEORGE FOY,
ANDER SPEED,
MfOORE, GEORGE
GEORGE BROWN. ELISHA
15 ATE, and SHEPPARD
M Chatham County,
ly shows.
1 . That said petitioners
ro"nN , ' n ’ 1 S
TOHN BAItJST BAPTIST CHURCH rHURCH of o f
nvannah. Chatham
Georgia, an unincorporated duly
tlgious society, have been
anthorireri bv said unlncorpor-
iic-i society bv resomtlon a -
inched, to incorporate as
I Hllirch and religious l»w society, as
o-ovld.d bv
SST OF
gforgiA.
CRATED” without
took end tor pumoses other
than pecuniary gain or
Name certificate is attached,
2 The object and purpose of
aid Cornnrat.ion. shall be to ae-
*n”ire and administer funds
nronertv. which, after the nnv-
me^t of necessavv exnenses,
‘•hall be devoted exclusively to
1 the nnnsc of charity, education
-a ••eV’gion, as a church in-
stltutlon
3 The Corporation shall
have the power and authority
to accent gifts and contribu¬
tions, whether bv will or other¬
wise ’provided, (however, that
fv,„ mmornttnn sbnll not ac-
eent nnv enntrlbuHen which is
other hP heid^or than for used^for the ^twoosm promotion
or education, rharitv and rc-
ll"ion. The Corporation Is to
have ah the nowers ns enum
crated In sections 22-1827 and
oMhe Code of the State
of Georgia.
4. The Corporation shall be
governed by a Board of Trus¬
ts of not, less than three (3)
and not more than eight ( 8 )
members in number the same
to he elected bv the members
of the Corporation. Each mem¬
ber of the Board of Trustees
shall serve from the date of
| his election been elected nlenlerl until and his A qualified successor I I ( i IW'I
V- has ~ o n i i n
i g ri) ) PS a nd by-laws of
I the Corporation shall be con-
s'stent with the purposes of the
Corporation as hereinabove set
out and the same shall be adopt¬
ed by maiority vote of the
members in meeting duly as-
| sembled.
! fl. That the life of the period Cor
noratton shall be for a
of Thirty-five (35) years, with
full right of renewal as may be
provided by law.
7. All members of the
OND RT. JOHN BAPTIST
CHURCH OF SAVANNAH,
entlv existing as an
I unrated religious society ln
I Chatham County, Georgia, shall
I i upon the granting of
Charter, become members
i the Corporation, and the
1 no ratio n shall succeed to all
i yo property rights of whatso
ever nature, theretofore
ing In and accruing to the unin-
c or pooled religious society
vnown ' 1 “ the SECOND RT.
: JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH OF
I c’AUANNAH AVANNAJ 1
.
8 The principal place of
I business nf the Corporation
shall be in Savannah, Chatham
county )U y ’ Georgia ’
; The and Post of-
0. names petitioners
flee addresses of the
lure a.s follows:
1. , Willie C. ^ os !; um rone C p
; st < et Savannah, Georgia
2. George Foy, 920 West 41st
| Street, Savannah, Of* 01 ! 14 '
3. Alexander 8 peed, H08
We*’t 50th street, Savannah,
Georgia.
4 Oliver Moore, 267
' Street, Savannah, Georgia,
*
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SAVANNA II
„ WEST M.DONWOH ST, mAI. Allan. 2-21.1
rRiEN
“““
FOR PROTECTION_ .
NliVV 3-BEI) ROOM BUNGALOWS
4 BED ROOM BUNGALOW on Lot 50’xl900’
3 hkD ROOM BUNGALOW, Last Waldbur*
on Lot 60’ x 113’
BEST PRICES PAID FOR VACANT LOTS ,
Loans - To Repair or Build New House*
Ezra Johnson
1009 West Broad Street
PHONE ADams 4-3432 Ret ADasns 2-7571
MOB SEVER
5. George Miller, 715 Fell-
wood Homes, Savannah, Geor¬
gia.
6 . George Brown, Fourth
Street, Rossigno! Hill, Savan-
Georgia.
7 . Elisha Pate, 2331 Ogeechee
Road. Savannah, Georgia.
g Sheppard Bacon, 1321 Gol-
den street, Savannah, Georgia.
,« Petitioners desirp that
mn y bp incorporated un-
the corpora UonAct nM93«* f
as ampn rtnd bv the Acts of 1949,
Acts of Georgia.
WHEREFORE, petitioners pray.
that they ibe ineornorated ifiader
name anf j aforesaid.
w)th aJ | r i K Dt.s. nowers. priv-
lieges and immunities hereln-
ahnvp Rpt m]t and R „ ch rtther
powers, privileges and
| mmun jtjes a s are or may here-
felon* ,, h ol conferred Uk« CharSr imon Cor- ™-
<"•' tilt u* <*oW..
E H Gadsden,
Attorney For Petitioners,
I
-
ptaot? Dp njrfwriTA
COUNTY OF CHATHAM
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
on June ]2 l°«n the
hers of the PFCOND RT .Tfl
bapttrt CRTtpch OF RA t ^
EMU. In con*P ror "'>> rotniljrlv a"s»v>-
and dniv assembled, nf
eiol called meeting after due
notice, a minrum Eeing nresent.
Ollt, 6 o’*l'*nH (V,p IV.U'.'mlnflr md.
hr- •WTTTTirr r>OPP nr’iOP'T’i;
rv~iV « T lev A mt>FT) OTMTOTJ , OT,.
ttt^ xfrvDpc nwowon; lorfr,-
t pr, rwior pro’cm Er r,
otta pate, a”d RtjiirppARD
nACOV tn (ncornornte bald
e*V,uenli qn tl*at ’t mav do bus-
opporrll nir fo thp
"‘at.ntes of the State of Oeor-
gi'> ,,
This 23r't rt ,T"no 1(180.
F f ifenlgault,
SpcretnriF
peemio pm irvn>T T> a PXIRT
CHURCH OF SAVANNAH..,,
biv
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{(>•>
ripnnn.i A H‘t
cTtA'i^rAior ronwY
TM mtjt? eTTr>fr?TOR COURT T,:I OF
RAID COUNTY'
ORDER
TSn ffiroTnlmr neHtinn ’ Of
urTT r tv n nwiRC.r tmv
«i i.-v a» x>ki> t*T>inrr>. f‘»t ifyk
uoonp pnviT)p.,ir MTxTA^R.
nenopi; npryiVV FT..TRHA
bate oM RirvopApn pAcnv,
o ^ Vk r, - - nf ’ V n CKV’DMTyilfZa’
tottat PAPTTRT CHURCH CPC
o a ir a vat a h neav'n" that , 4 W'<f
. miiirch be locorrmrated under
(V ,, n n *v>o and «tvi« ns set, n\if 1n
said petition, having been fWnd
a«d conslder"d: and It anpfear-
| ir» to t,hp Court that said >>p-
MHon is within t.he nui vtew and
intent n f the Jnw in such t #kps
1 made ther and appearing nrovided; to pnrj the i^ Cvnirt ,r -
fv, n f petitioners Rave dnm-
w jty a lT conditions pre-
poHpnt nnd a „ statutory, re-
| n ,foments applicable to such
petitions'
tTtr tuURSRYORDERED AND
ADJUDGED that, said petition
be, and and the the said same church hereby ts gr^nt- here-
od.
h" inenrno’ , ated f or the term
Thirty-five (35) years; with
the rlvht to renew this ehar-
‘ er, as mav be now or her.«f-
ter provided by law, as a body
eornora** Jt^TOHN
ot.vle of KECTlA D RT. ,TOHN
r>ARTIST CHURCH OF SAVAN-
N ah. GEORGIA, INCORPOR-
ATED, without eapital stock,
an a with all of the nowers,
1 nrlvllwes and Immunities set
'forth In raid petition, together
wi ,y such other rights, powers,
privileges and Immunities ns
I are nr mav hereafter be 'af-
forded bv the laws of this state
) to similar Corporations.
Georgia g
oppn Cour t thls 2 8 th day
of j un e, mo.
Dunbar Harrison,
Judge, Superior Court
Eastern Judicial Cireui
R. P. Axxon
I Pep. Clerk, S. Q. C- C., Oa,„